The Qumran community
This book provides a new translation of substantial extracts from the Qumran writings, which comprise an important part of the Dead Sea scrolls. The writings reflect the beliefs and practices of a religious community which existed on the shores of the Dead Sea between the middle of the second centur...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1987.
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| In: | Year: 1987 |
| Reviews: | SHORT NOTICES (1988) (Williamson, H. G. M., 1947 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Cambridge commentaries on writings of the Jewish and Christian world, 200 BC to AD 200
volume 2 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
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| Further subjects: | B
Commentary
B Qumran community B Dead Sea Scrolls |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521242479 |
| Summary: | This book provides a new translation of substantial extracts from the Qumran writings, which comprise an important part of the Dead Sea scrolls. The writings reflect the beliefs and practices of a religious community which existed on the shores of the Dead Sea between the middle of the second century BC and AD 68. They shed considerable light on the Essenes, whose movement had an important focus at Qumran. In addition to selecting the most significant legislative, poetic and liturgical writings, Professor Knibb provides a commentary dealing with major interpretative problems raised by the extracts. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511621353 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511621352 |